Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 1938
Feb 13, 2019
Could Mosquitos be more friend than foe?
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bees, biological, biotech/medical, defense, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, science
Tags: aging, allergies, asthma, auto-immune, Bill Gates, bioquark, cancer, diabetes, Disease, ectocrine, ectocrinome, Google, health, ibd, insects, mosquitos, ms, regenerage, regeneration, verily, wellness
Feb 13, 2019
Europe’s next €1-billion science projects: six teams make it to final round
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, science, solar power, sustainability
The six newly shortlisted initiatives include: a project that would explore how AI can enhance human capabilities; one to hasten clinical availability of cell and gene therapies; a personalized-medicine initiative; two projects that aim to make solar energy more efficient; and a humanities project called the Time Machine, which seeks to develop methods for enabling digital search of historical records in European cities.
AI enhancement and a virtual time machine are included in the shortlist of pitches.
Feb 12, 2019
Scientists Have Discovered a Drug That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth
Posted by Victoria Generao in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
GOODBYE, FILLINGS Dental fillings may soon be left in the ash heap of history, thanks to a recent discovery about a drug called Tideglusib. Developed for and trialled to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism, allowing the tooth to repair cavities.
Feb 12, 2019
New Bionic Heart Charges Wirelessly Inside Patient’s Chest
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism
Feb 12, 2019
Researchers discover the signal that drives stem cells to form new bones
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: biotech/medical
The discovery is the first step in developing a stem cell therapy to help patients recover from bone fractures, spinal fusion, and osteoporosis.
Feb 12, 2019
Researchers closer to new Alzheimer’s therapy with brain blood flow discovery
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
By discovering the culprit behind decreased blood flow in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s, biomedical engineers at Cornell University have made possible promising new therapies for the disease.
You know that dizzy feeling you get when, after lying down for an extended period, you stand up a little too quickly?
That feeling is caused by a sudden reduction of blood flow to the brain, a reduction of around 30 percent. Now imagine living every minute of every day with that level of decreased blood flow.
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Feb 12, 2019
An Interview with Kelsey Moody – Developing a Company to End Age-Related Diseases
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
We recently visited the Longevity Leaders Conference in London and had the opportunity to speak with Kelsey Moody, the CEO of Ichor Therapeutics, a company focused on targeting age-related diseases by targeting the aging processes themselves. We previously interviewed him back in 2017, so it was the ideal time to catch up on what had been happening with his company since then.
Ichor and its portfolio companies have been very busy over the last year, so I thought it was time that we caught up on progress. Can you tell us how things are going for the Ichor group?
Ichor really had a good year in 2018. We raised over $16 million across our portfolio, and that’s really allowed us to scale up all aspects of our operations. We’re at over 50 employees now, mostly bench scientists and research technicians, and we’re really delivering on our goal of being a vertically integrated biopharmaceutical company.
Feb 12, 2019
Lactate activates multiple genes that modulate neuronal activity
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
“We found that lactate stimulates synaptic activity-dependent genes in the short-term and genes involved in regulating neuronal excitability in the long-term,” explains the first author of the paper Michael Margineanu, a KAUST Master’s student.
Study illustrates the links between brain energy metabolism and neuronal activity.
A genome-wide study led by Dean Pierre Magistretti sheds light on the mechanisms through which lactate regulates long-term memory formation and neuroprotection.
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Feb 12, 2019
A new stem cell derived tool for studying brain diseases
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Sergiu Pasca’s three-dimensional culture makes it possible to watch how three different brain-cell types – oligodendrocytes (green), neurons (magenta) and astrocytes (blue) – interact in a dish as …